Parnara naso, the African straight or straight swift, is a skipper butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found on Mauritius, Réunion and Madagascar.[1] The habitat consists of forest margins and anthropogenic environments.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Parnara |
| Species: | P. naso
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| Parnara naso (Fabricius, 1798)
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The larvae feed on Oryza sativa and Saccharum officinarum.
Subspecies
edit- Parnara naso naso (Mauritius)
- Parnara naso bigutta Evans, 1937 (Reunion)
- Parnara naso poutieri (Boisduval, 1833) (Madagascar)
References
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- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Hesperiidae - Subfamily Hesperiinae". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
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